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Patemgd sept. 3, A1867.

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Letters Patent lV'o. 68,553, dated September 3,1867.

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'IO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

Be it known that LNICIIOLAS BURCH, of North Fairfield, in the county of Huron, and State of h`io,have invented certain new and4 useful Improvements in Fence-Gates, the.; and I do hereby*declare'that the following is a full and complete description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making a part of this specification, in which- Figure 1 is a side view of the gate.

Figures 2,' 3, and -l are detached sections.

Like letters of reference refer to like parts in the diiferentviews.

In iig. 1, A represents the gute, which consists of five bars, B, more or less, nailed or otherwise secured to cross-pieces C, which form the head and foot of the gate, and braced in the middle by the cleat D. This gate is hung to the post E by means of the rotating guides F F. The guide F consists of a broad flat eye or bracket, Gr, fastened to the corner of the post in the position shown in fig. 1. 'Io the inside of this bracket is loosely tted a sleeve, H, in the projecting lower end of which is cut udeep slot, in which the edge of the upper bar of the gate is fitted and slides. A vertical transverse section of this swivel is shown in fig. 4, in

' which iig. 1 shows a section of the gate-bar. -The lower guide F also consists of a bracketor. eye attached to the post in the same way, which bracket is also fitted with a sleeve, but does not project through the eye, as is the case with the one in the upper guide. It will be observed that both the sleeves are provided with u ilange, J, iig. 3, which rests upon the upper edge ofthe eye, and is thereby prevented from falling through it. It also acts as ashoulder, upon which the sleeve turns, for a purpose hereafter shown. K, fig.- 2, are friction-rollers so arranged that the bar B lies and slides between them on a friction-roller, L, buried in the sleeve, as shown in the drawing. The front or free end of the gate is supported on a roller, M, fig. 1, and upon which and the roller L it is slid back in the direction indicated by the dotted lines N. The gate when thus rolled back is half opened. In order to open it to its full it is then swung around upon the guides above described, which is easily and readily done as the gate hangs upon them equally balanced. The gate, on being shut, as shown in iig. 1, is fastened by the latch O, which, as the end of the bar passes under it, throws it up, but which immediately, onpassing the shoulder of the notch, falls back into it, and thus secures the gate from being opened.

What I claim as my improvement, and desire to secure Aby Letters Patent, s

1. I claim the rotating guide Fandeye G, in combination with the gate, substantially as and for the purpose set forth. I l 2. The rotating guide F', roller L, guide-rollers K, bracket G, in combination with the gate, substantially as an'dfor the purpose set forth. y

NICHOLAS BURCH.

Witnesses;

W. H. BURR'IDGE, FRANK S. ALBEN. 

